Synodic month length 29.69 days

Length of current 318 lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 31 minutes. It is 1 hour and 51 minutes shorter than next lunation 319 length.

Lunation length longer than mean

Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 47 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 16 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.

Lunar orbit position on 5 October 2025 Sunday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠127.7°

This New Moon true anomaly is ∠127.7°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠156.8°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).

Moon before perigee

9 days after point of apogee on 26 September 2025 at 09:46 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 3 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 8 October 2025 at 12:36 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 373 210 km

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♓ Pisces at 09:20 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 12 days to meet descending node on 18 October 2025 at 04:34 in ♍ Virgo.

New draconic month

Moon after southern standstill

6 days after previous South standstill on 29 September 2025 at 06:09 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.599°. Next 6 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.550° in the next northern standstill on 12 October 2025 at 03:30 in ♊ Gemini.